• 2 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     WR = 2st Enduro & CR = 2st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

125-200cc Steering Damper for CR125 2012

racerjake549

racerjake549

Husqvarna
AA Class
steering damper.jpg Can anybody direct me to a steering damper that looks like it came from factory? Honda did have and may still have on CR's. Would like to have one on CR and TC. Needs to look stock. Dont want to give anyone in the stock class something to cry about.
thanks!
 
I saw a weld on kit to put a CRF one on a KTM but I can not remember the site. It wouldn't be hard to make the mounts just look at a Honda to see how they do it.
 
If you haven't already, Take the headset apart, clean and regrease with Bel-Ray waterproof grease, and run more bearing preload on re-assemble. It really calmed my '12 CR125 down. I was getting some headshake in high-speed chop, now it is stable.
 
MotoMarc36 said:
If you haven't already, Take the headset apart, clean and regrease with Bel-Ray waterproof grease, and run more bearing preload on re-assemble. It really calmed my '12 CR125 down. I was getting some headshake in high-speed chop, now it is stable.
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Marc, Bearing pre-load? Are you talking how tight you tighten the nut under the top tripple?
 
Yep exactly. It can be a trial-and -error procedure, as tiightening the top nut changes the pressure on the bearings, too, because it is torqued to a tighter setting than the bottom nut and the load on the bottom nut threads shifts from the bottom edge of the threads to the top (damn I'm over-complicating this!!). Make a final judgement with the front wheel on and the top nut and forkleg pinchbolts tight. If it is too tight the steering will not want to self-center to a straight track. When you get it just right it will not be noticeable when riding it will self-center but will resist unwanted movement/headshake. Usually you can judge that by putting it on the stand with the front wheel up, it will not flop to it's steering lock without a push, you'll notice the drag but it will still feel smooth and not bind. All bets are off if your bearings/races are beat brinelled and need replacing!!
 
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